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The arose thou haat not lifted yet;
I am near my crown.
Bootee host thou tasted earthly joys;
I have drank, yet thirst:
Nor grief nor sorrow stirs thy heart;
Mine is nigh to burst.
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Its fruit to me is given,
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Life opens fair and bright to thee,
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Glad on yonder shore,
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For the Preabyterian Bonner:
Fallacies and Falsities about Religion.
IVY J. N. MILAILES
The refutation of calumnious statements,
although a work of justice and benevolence,
is not always a pleasant work. Like a
surgical operation, however, it is sometimes
absolutely necessary. Though the libelous
allegations may do more harm to their au
thors than they do to religion nay, because
they do, the impulse of Christian benevo
lence prompts to their exposure. Besides,
their unohecked currency may give them
credit, and the power to annoy and injure
unwary souls. They commonly assume
some taking and convenient form, for more
ready lodgment in the popular mind; anu
they acquire by long use, a snakish lubrici
ty, for "slipping through the hands of those
who seize them; and thus they go about,
startling the timid with their hiss and rat
tle, andinserting the venom of their bite
into the veins of the weak and unwary.
I propose to notice several of these pop
ular fallacies and falsitids, that haVe, from
time immemorial, haunted men's minds,
prejudicing them against religion; and
which, probably, were never more on - the
lips and in the ears of people than at the ,
present time,
1. The number' and rivalry of sects is
alleged as a proof of the uncertainty and
insufficiency of the evidences of Christian
ity. "Agree among yourselves what is the
true doctrine, and then I will consider the
claims of your-religion." This looks very
formidable, and has undoubtedly done
much mischief among those who think lit
tle, or who think under the leading of a
hostile- prejudice. But the diversity of
religious belief is not proportionate to the
number of ecclesiastical denominations.
National and other accidental circumstances
have given Tim, to -difference of -organization
and name while there was no real diversity
of belief or order. For example, there
are several branches of the Presbyterian
Church, holding the same faith. Some
have sprung .from Holland, some from Ger
many, some from Scotland, whence they
have brought some peculiarities of mode
and order, but their faith is the same. It
is as unreasonable' to call these different re
ligions as it would be to assign to different
species or genera the plants that have,
though confessedly of the same kind, been
slightly affected by variety of climate, soil,
or culture. Moreover, it must be observed,
that under the name - of Christian denom
inations, are commonly included some that
have no just title to that name. This, of
course, swells the number and increases
the variety, and gives a more incongruous
aspect to nominal Christendom. But it
is unfair to include un-Christian and
anti-Chriatian organizations under the
nude of Christian. All subjects of
human thought and interest, as well ai
religion, would have their character en
dangered, if they were treated in this
style, and held responsible for the vagarimi
of visionary,' fanatical and foolish claimants
of their name. But who brands Mechan
ical Philosophy 'or Chemistry with dis
grace because oftheichemerical speeulations
concerning perpetual motion and the phil
osopher's stone P Truthisnot responsible
for the aberrations of folly, and• she should
not suffer for faults against which she earn
estly and honestly protests.
ut, again, the nature of the human
mind is.besb.represented by some variety
of opinion, on-this as on other subjects of
moral evidence.' know not the time or
place, where all pe4le, if they thought at
all, thought exactly alike on the subject, of
politics. There are always two parties,
and usually a - number more,sfor the accom
modation of mental oddities. and eccen
tridities: This occurs on a subject less
complex and comprehensive than religion.
What speeches in legislative balls,“ what
stump orations, what veteran columns in
newspapers ate perpetually discussin g the
political theme 1 And yet men are not
brought to uniformity of views. The na-
ture of the human mind does not admit or
it. Now, what judgment should' the in
fidel caviler form, on this state of affairs 7
Why, he should pronounce all political
' , ience a humbug; he shotilf• maintain
'at 'all tiolitioians-and- statesman are .the
subject! of delusion or the 'agents of de-
ception ; he should deny the patriotism of
every party and of 'every man; he should
say to the jeffersons, the Adamses, the
Jaoksons, and the Clays : 1 . Gentlemen,
agree' among yourselves, heeding harmoni
ous in'your 'opinions, and united in your
organisation, and then I will consider the
claims of lourpolitioal creed." , And un
til they did: , mo, he should abjure' all alle
giance to the country, disown ifk (ibbstitu
tion and despise its loyal citizens. But he
is guiltier no swill injustice and stupidi
ty, on any subject but religion.
And let it , further' be observed, that"the
central and essential vrinciples on which
evangelical Christians are agreed, are ape
cially offensive to him, even while he is
railing and ranting abont'their diversitim
It is, really, not the difference but. the
agreement'among them, that disturbs Win.
The depravity of man, the atonement, jus-,
tification by grace, the retributive justice
VOL. M, NO. 51.
of God, the obligation to holiness, are pre
cisely the articles of their common creed,
which he regards with the greatest repug
nance. And he attributes their concur
rence in these;to ecillusion, or to blind;
unthinking submission to educational in
fluence or clerical authority. This bneer
ing enemy of religion, indulging his hos
tility at one time on the differences, and
again on the agreement of its friends, de
monstrates nothing, after all, so clearly as
this, that his opposition to it arises not
from conviction, but from blind - prejudice.
At the same time, the facts of the ease are
in perfect accordance with the wholesome
and free working of the human mind;
while the diversity of opinion on some
points, and the earnest concurrence on
others, afford proof of the honesty of the con
victions resulting from personal investiga
tion.
The Real Unity of the Church.
There is scarcely anything that illus
trates with greater beauty and power the
real unity of the Church, than the fact that
the same songs are to a great extent sung
by every denomination of Christians.
Many hymns are the property of all be
lievers of every name. You hear them
wherever you go to worship, and see them,
no matter what book of Psalmody you
open. Cowper and Newton were both
members of the Church .of England, and
Dr. Watts was a Nonconformist Divine;.
but how often is the great heart of the uni
versa.l Church borne up to heaven on the
Wings of their verse I That beautiful
hymn of Cowper,
There is a, fourdaid fillgt with blood,"
how arrogant wouldit be for any one de
nomination to claim it as their song, when
truthfully expressing the emotions of every
pious heart; men of every possible.shade of
theological belief sing it !
When even fierce theological combatants
seek to express their pious emotions in peo
try, the fact is quite'noteworthy, that they
oftentimes utter substantially the same
views of truth. Toplady and Wesley be
longed to this class: Indeed, our heart
sickens as we read even the titles' of the
polemic pamphlets that through the press
these good men hurled at each other. As
the hyper-Calvinist, "Toplady could see
nothing' good in Wegrey ;' nor, as a thor
ough Arminian, could Wesley tolerate the
creed of Toplady. And great reproach did
the Church in their day suffer from their
mutual acrimony. But both of these men
were poets; and have made to the songs of
Zion valuable contributions. And in
these, how perfectly alike do we see they
were at heart ! It was,Toplady who , wrote
that beautiful hymn,
" Rook of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee."
And John Wesley that one so like it in
sentiment,
"Jesus, thy blood: and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress."
Examining, some time since, the excel
lent su-pplernent-of—the- ((Church Psalm
ist," and observing two hymns so similar
in, sentiment as for that reason to be espe
cially marked, and , to be' placed ,in imme
diate connexion, what: was our surprise,
upon, turning to the index, to find that John
Wesley wrote one, and Augustus Toplady
another ! ,The first sang,
"Fixed on this Rock will I remain
When heart shall fail and flesh decay ;
A Rook which shall my soul sustain,
When earth's foundations melt away."
The last ,
".My name from the palms of his hands,
Eternity will not erase;
Impressed on his heart it °remains,
In marks of indelible grace."
Behold, how "we being many are one
bread (loaf) and one body." Toplady and
Wesley, quarreling all their lives upon the
question whether a Christian can fall from
grace, singing the praises of God as har
moniously upon this very point as if they
were twin angels !—Anz. Presbyterian.
LWEsrsT's stanza declares the writer's
purpose. It 'affirms what he will do, and
is hence Arminian.
• "Fixed on this Rook wit/ I remain."
TOPLADY'S stanza declares a.confidence
•
in the Divine purpose :
!‘ In marks of indclible grace."
t is hence Oalvinistie
But there is truth and piety in both.
The Christian can sino. Ito '•the - one 'When hum
bly and reverently expressing his devoted
ness to God ; and the other when declaring
the assurance of his hope, as fixed on the
Saviour's unchanging love.—ED.]
Nothing to Spare.
" I have found nothing to spare," is the
plea of sordid reluctance. But a far different
sentiment will be formed a:mid the scenes'of
the last day. Men now 'persuader them
selves that they have nothing:to- spare till
they can support a certain style- of luxury,
and have provided for the establishment of
children. But in the awful hour, when
you and I, and all pagan nodal:is,' shall be
called from our graves to stand before the
bar of Christ, what comparison will these
„objects bear -to the salvation of a single
.soul,? Eternal Mercy I let, not the blood
of heathen millions be found in our skirts !
Standing, as I now do, in the sight of a
dissolving universe, beholding 'the = dead
arise, the world ia flames, the heavens flee
ing,away, all nations.convulsed with terror,
oewrapt in the vision of the Lamb, I pro
nuancethe-conversion of a single 'pagan of
more value than all the wealth Omnipo
tence ever produced.. 011 such all aWful
subject it beetnnes me to speak with cau
tion ; but I solemnly avow, that were there
; but one heathen- in the world, and he -in
the remotest corner of Asia, if no greater
duty confined us athome, it would be worth
the pains of all the people of America to
embark together to cattythOgospel to him.
Place your soul in his soul's stead; or
rather, consent for a moment to change
condition with the savages on our borders.
Were you posting on to the 'judgment of
the great day in the darkness and'pollution
of pagan , idolatry, and were they living , in
wealth in this Terry district of the Church,
how hardwould it seem-for your neighbors
to neglect your misery ! When you should
open your eyes in the eternal world,. and
discover 'the ruin =in , which they had suf
fered your to remain, how would you re
preach them, that they did not even sell
.their possessions;if no other means were
sufficient, to send =the Gospel to yott! My
flesh trembles at the prospect ! But they
shall not reproach us.' It shall be known
in -heaven that we could pity our 'brethren.
.:lll,Ohlittrjait, 7.-,a.:.tT.-:
PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY, SE PTEMBER 6, 1862. WHOLE. NO. 519
We will send them all the relief in our
power, and will enjoy the luxury of reflect
ing what happiness we , may entail on gen
erations yet unborn.—E. D. Griffin.
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE
Garibaldi and his Attitude—Anxiety at Turin—ls
the French Emperor in the Plot What Mean
eth it P—British Aferchants, " Contraband of
War," and Federal Seizures—Lord Russel
Un
sympathizing—llis Counsel, Calmness, and Fair
ness—lliaory, Adams and Russel—A Painful
Story, of true—The Waldenses and Colonel Beck
with—. A Friend in Need" Departed—Demon
strations at the Crystal Palace—The Odd Fellows
and the Temperance Men—Parliament Prorogued
—The Dispatch Box—The Closing Scene = " S.
C. O." and the Canterbury " Scandal "—Canons
and Cathedrals versus "the Gospel to the Poor"
—Agrarian Murder—Railiffs and Agents—Mur
derers Sheltered—Postscript.
LONDON, August 9, 18(32.
GARIBALDI has been, and is still, in
Sicily, delivering also very violent har
angues against the Emperor .of the French,
as the grand obstruction in the path of full
freedom for Italy. ITe summons the youth
to arms everywhere; and amongst the
ranks of " Young Italy" there has been a
great stir, and secret enlistments even at
Turin have been going forward.. The
Italian Government is alarmed rand anx
ious; for if Garibaldi makes an attempt on
the Roman territory with a handful of
brave but undisciplined youth, it is hardly
to be expected that - he will be able to say—
as he virtually could say when almost
alone he; entered Naples and put to flight
the Bourbons—" I came, I saw, I con
quered." But the special danger is, that
the Austrians may either find their own
territory invaded, or discover a sufficient
excuse in any tresspass on the Papal terri
tories for a rush across the frontiers with
an overwhelming force, and then, as the
natural consequence, an attempt to recover
lost ground in Lombardy, and so to inaugur
ate a crisis, the• issue of which might be
most disastrous to the nascent liberties of
the Italian kingdom. The English Press,
without an exception—including the Morn
in9 Star, whiCh is Ultra Radical—remon
strates with Garibaldi. The Times, with .
its accustomed power, draws a' parallel be-•
tween him and the Earl of Warwick, the
" King-maker" of England's history.:
" With a facility almost miraculous, he
plucked down from his seat the feeble heir,
of the house of Lancaster, and placed in
his stead the valiant and youthful Boyer- ,
eign, ' his companion-in-arms, and his
trusted friend and ally. Growing discon
tented with the very state of things he had
created, he Sung down, with'the same won
derful ease, the King whom he had made.
But he was unable to maintain his victory.
The nation.reversed the policy of, Warwick,
and he perished ingloriously, leaving be
hind him the name of a great military.
chief, but of a fickle and unsound politi
cian."
When Garibaldi has appeared in his
place in the Italian Parliament, be has been
like Samson shorn of the locks which were
the source of lie Strength. The ardent
spirit was still there, but the administra
tive and legislative faculties were utterly
wanting. A vehement outburst of pent-up
emotions in what could not be called a
speech, but which was damaging to him,
was the issue, and wise men sadly looked
on, as after that whirlivind of passion, , he
left the Chamber. Not to any one man
does God impart a universal genius. Our
own great warrior-Duke was a poor orator,
and rather a bigoted and purblind politi
cia,n—although O'Connel, by his agitation,
opened both his eyes and those of Peel to
the urgent danger of civil war, unless
Roman Catholic emancipation were granted.
There are first,class Generals both in Amer
ica and England, at this moment, as well'
as in • every country in Europe, who are
emphatically men of action, and great as
such, but to whom it . would be most unsafe
to commit, as to proper legislators, a coun
try's• destinies, or to expect them to name
the-time for an uprising against a common
foe. Such cis it with Garibaldi. "'No
one,v says the' Times, 4i whatever the ben
eftts-he may have conferred, has acquired a
rightto ruin the people:upon whom he has.
conferred them. We therefore are glad to
see that the King of Italy, though we do
not doubt with the most sincere reluctance,
has issued a proclamation warning the
young not to be carried awarbrillusion,
not' to forget the duty of..gratitude to those
who have been the best allies of Italy, and
not to make the name of. Rome, the desire
of all, the signal for war. The King will
speak when the hour arrives. Every other
summons, says the'Prodamation, is that of
rebellion and civil war. The , responsibility,
and the rigor of the 'law, will fall upon
those who will not listen to this appeal."
It is a mistake to suppose that the French
Emperor is in collusion with Garibaldi.
This movement gives him the greatest un
,easiness at the baths of Vichy, where he is
being treated' for the restoration of his
health. It is possible it may be overruled
for hastening the withdrawment of the
French : troops from Rome, and that this: is
,Garibaldi's design. It „is surmised.
some that it is not Italy, init Rangel and
Servia, that are likely to'be the scene of
insurrection, and it is affirmed that the
nungarian leaders are "on the , wing,"
passing to and fro. A short time will show
what is meant. Certainly the Pope and
Antonelli are as obatinate as ever, and the
Jesuit Doctors at Rome-are disgusting Eu
rope afresh by lectures; the , thesis of whiah
is in.sibstance that. Romani:am and , resist-.
ance to modern, progress so-called, are the
true conservators of real eiberty. A French
Liberal paper advises GaribaltiVtia extricate
himself• from the antagonism created be . -
tween him and ;Victor •Emmanuel, by an
expedition to the Turkish Provinces on thel
Adriatic.
CERTAIN British merchants have written
to Lord Russel, the Foreign Secretary,
complaining that while the Queen's Proc
lamation has announced our neutrality, and
forbidden the supply of arms •to either
South or North, that -practically the 'Fed;
erals get aßthey want, and •that theirves
sels take out -supplies' to New-York, while
other Federal vessels intercept all supplies
on - the way in Charleston. One shipp-stops
contraband of war; the other carries, it.
A United States' clipper loads in our ports
with rifles and gunpolider, while a . Fede,r-•
al frigate hoveranhout the' offing, ready to
pounce upon any - snob <Argo consigned to
Southerners. In this service the Federiir
officers araexceedingly activ ,e and theimer
chants who , write. to Lord' Russel, declare
that'their goods are not safe from seizlre
in British bottoms sailing from one Mit
ish port-to another: They also 'complain,,
that if file Amerioatt Cbart ghoul&
condemn the seizure, there is no adequate
compensation to be expected for the dam
age.
The retort of the Federal Government is,
that traffic in contraband of war, is notori
ously carried on ; that ships sail from
British ports with the fixed purpose of
running the blockade, and that the Feder
al cruisers, therefore, are justified in look
ing after such craft, even in the Bahama
waters. Lord Russet sides with the Fed
eral Government, declares to the forty mer
chants that theirs' is virtually an unlawful
trade, and gives it as his advice that" the
merchants and shipowners of . Liverpool
should refrain from this species of trade."
He is clearly, and justly., of opinion that'
people who engage in unlawful commerce,
cannot invoke very loudly the protection
of the law. The ships of the North, say'
the metnorialists, "rare now blockading the .
British port of- Nassau as if it werea Con-:
federate port.;" but' the Foreign. Secretary,
replies that the saittport is regarded as
the great en trepot of the contraband trade,
and that the vigilance of the Federal ves
sels is therefore not surprising.
Now all this is perfectly tight, and yet
when Lord RusSel thug writes, his conduct
be remembered, is consistent with his
general conduct in regard to this strife.
Depend upon it, if the Tories had their
way,'and dared to take upon themselves
the responsibility, they would'act very dif
ferently. Whatever irritation' of feeling
may now exist, and however newspapers of
a certain class on either side may hurl mu
tual javelins of wrathful accusation—im
puting all possible bad `motives—the con
duct of Lord Russel as• a whole, and its
Mr. Adams, the Ambassador,• knows in his
constant intercourse with him, has been
frank, manly, honest and friendly. When
History traces the stay of the war, he and
Mr. Adams will, side by side, be shown as
cautious, calm, wise, and able statesmen.
ME WALDENSES have lost one of their
their best friends, a friend in need and in.
deeds, whose= name and person, as Major.
General Beckwith, must be familiar to
many American gentleman who have vis
ited the vallies of the Vaudois. "He had
•
dedicated himself," to use the Words of
Amedeo Bert, a Valdensian pastor, "to
the work of promoting the intellectual and
religious welfare of that ,potir Alpine peo
ple, who had been, until 1848, oppressed
by the Jesuit and clerical - government."
And as the fruit of this re 50170..-"." He'did`
prodigies of charity and personalsacrifices
—established more than a hundredoschools.
—built churches and houses for pastors
and masters—uru b ed public instruction on
ward in the path which should-be trodden
by the citizens of a free country, and es
pecially by Protestants. He raised -the
condition of the women, by receiving in
an institution, long maintained by himself
alone, Waldensian girls, who, on returning,
to their families, carried back and impart
ed to them, knowledge, order, and 'sincere
piety---!in' a word, he . consecrated thirty
four years of his life', to protecting, bene-'
filing, and directing to-Worthy ends; a pop
ulation who will for ever call him their re
generator, and father. He took* a wife
front among his beloved villagers, that he
might be More closely united to them j and
as Italy had in Oavour its most powerful
promoter and supporter of unity, progress
andlreedom, so' Beckwith was the Ormur
of the Waldensians, and his name and
memory will be ever 'blessed among the
Protestants of Piedmont."
The name of 'this devoted man` was' long
a familiar one at the tables of the Com
mittees of the British and Foreign Bible
Societies i and of the Religious -Tract So
ciety. He was one of the many and ever
increasing number of pious officers who
form "The Church in the Army." He
had lost aleg-at Waterloo, but the wooden
one which supplied:its place, did , not pre
vent sliming •the loftiest Vaudois! moun
tains; that helnight!personally inspect the
schools which he had founded.
GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS, annual in
their character, have taken place this week
at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, and un
der bright .end _genial skies. The first of
these was the fête of the Odd Fellows, a
kind of Trades Corporation and Mutual
Benefit Society, which numbers'hundreds
of thousands in its ranks,,and has its.ram--
ifieations over England, „specially in the
Northern and Midland ,Counties. These
men carry banners, have bands of music,
wear. scarfs and badgesian'd march in order ,
—generally accompanied by their wives,
families,
and female friends and !acquaint
anees. They are peaceable and prosperous,
and their funds for eharita.ble purposes are
very large.' On the occasion of their vis
iting Sydenham Palace and grounds. •Bion
den, the-Freneh.Canadian, soon after a fall
display of the whole fountains, walked
along the high which stretches to an
immense distance over the terrace fourt
mind in front of the great building;. and
by special request, wheeled an • Odd Fellow
(and a rash fellow,) across the rope..
The second demonstration was that of
the temperance men, or 'teetotallers 'of
England, who even in .London, have great
ly increased', and whose numbers are swell
ed by the "Band of Hope" movement in
Sunday Schools.
PARLIAMENT is prorogued. ,-AccoMpa
nied. by "a friend!? of‘yours— ,-, aniiablei and
worthy—l shad- influence ,enough to get into
the crowd of members. 'of - the Commons,
;who , marched down - the • grand corridor,
headed -by-the, Speaker. into the House of
Lords.- I also, with him, had a glimpe be
'fore this . of seeing the Royal Dispatch Box
which- contained thel."'speech ' enclosed,
and the Great Seal also—which had-s-been'
,used at. the PriVr Council held on Wed
nesday- at . Balmoral. Queen's , messenger
had .been travelling alLmight by express
-train, bearing the speech. We saw also
the , Queen's Own, writing--a -label ) , as it:
were, not on the -Dispatch. Box, but on ..a
long slip of paper, peeping out from , under
the covering lid, and unarked, in a: bold;
yet feminine, hand, "The ;Lord Chancel
lor;" " The Queen:" Five-Peers, in 'their
robes,,the Lord Chancellor, in- the infdst, i
occupied. a velvet-covered- -seat in front of,
the. (vaaant) -throne, andi .gave the: dloyal
assenut to a-. number of after Which.
the. Chancellor,,sitting,- (turtle Queen- does:-
on such occasions,) as Well , as his fellow,
:Comtnissioners, road the-",speech.'.':lt in,`'-
„thcates.most :strongly that' England. Will not' ,
,interfere, in the--Civil•War.
A CDUNDR" SCANDAL has been lately
exposed in the eolumns of the Times, by is
elergyrnau of aristoeintie family, the Rev,
Lord Sidney &dolphin, 'Osborne--the
Inotbr 4( S. G. o."' , It'appeari that a ' searee
I ly fledged candidate for orders was suddenly
ordained, in order that he might be hoisted
over the heads of his senior-Rectors—ano
ther not of the, diocese was put into the
Caning in Salisbury Cathedral, and that
the Bishopa of Oxford and Salisbury were
more or less compromised. " Slippery
Samuel," of Oxford, has tried to clear'him
self on the one hand, and some friend of
the Bishop of Salisbury has been white
washing him on the other. The former
Prelate, " S. G. 0.." is disposed to absolve,
because, he says, " four days before the
publication of my letter, he suspended his
intention of ordaining the young man,
priest before his time.' But why consent
to it at first'? BeCause Dr. Wilberforce
was privy to the design of vile patronage.:
conspirators. Why recoil, when- even Dr.
Oxford thought the youth's claims on him
"so remarkable"? Let J. C., (quere, Dr.
Cumming„) another, writer in the Times,
give his interpretation and ,comment : "If
it is true that rfili6r's' Walrus " upon
the. Bishop of Oifordis consideration are
" in many respects so remarkable," does it
not appear that great injustice is done -by
postponing his, promotion to the priesthood,
which, of course, his singular merits and
the interests of religion required, on the
miserable plea that it would affect unfairly
the patronage of the •Dean and Chapter of
Salisbury ?
" We have heard," adds the severely just
and satirical " / J. C.," " many laments lately
of the degeneracy of candidates for the min
istry. 'Can we wonder at it, when men of
many remarkable claimOike Mr. Fisher :
are kept back by such paltry considerations."
But " S. G. o.'.' is not to let go his hold with
regard to the proposed Canonry presenta
tion, and in the early part of this week held
up his rod, with the , "-briny" pickle drip
ping off it, in the sight of the trembling
culprits, and, as he does so he says, "I am
now in a position, if necessary, to make
Very clear the chief features of the trans
action at Salisbury with reference to a
vacant state and living. But I wait yet •a.
little, before I pursue the subject- to its
legitimate conclusion." Imagine what the
guilty felt when they read these words--
hoW the old foxes began to run to cover
and hide themselves ! The Canons of
Cathedrals have presentations in their
" turn," and, it appears that before this last
case, the same body bestowed a living on u
stranger because he was the cousin of a cer
taili'eatton's wife! These Canons get a hand
some sum for ".a month's`" or longer " resi
dence e., coming from, their country'
livings and spending an, easy time of it in
being present at the °haunting and Litur
gical service's morning and evening, and
preaching occasionally. There are, be
sides, Canon's' Residentiary, 1. e., perma
nently resident.
The. Cathedral system, is Rome-derived.
It has furnished at times learned leisure
for scholars such as is Dr. Alford, the
Dean of Canterbury—and has opened the
way for faithful preaching by able and evan
m
b elical men such as Canon- Bickersteth,
(now Bishop of Ripon,) who at Salisbury
waked up the echoes of the voice of. the
faithful°Jewel;`of King Edward's age. But
Cathedral towns, as as rule, are spiritually
dead; somnolent formalism prevails, .and
sums are paid for " services" well nigh un
profitable, which would -support many a
faithful Eible-Reader,.or parish clergyman,
and carry out, wide and free, the purpose
and example of 'Him who gloried in that
"to the poor the Gospel is preached," as'
the crowning, glory of hjs Spiritual king
dom, and even above Afd beyond miracles,
the test and Proofiriesistible of his Alessi
ahship..
The two' Bishops indicated in the fore
going are the men who have been most
eager in prosecuting and denouncing " Es
sayism " and its abettors. But the inevi
table result of such scandalous, underhand
dealing, as to Church patronage, is to cause
a reaction of pdpular sympathy with the
persecuted;" to harden'in their errors the
apostles,of Negativism; to stereotype Dis
sent, and to lay, up in the cells of a Na
tion's'ineinory facts which--suddenty, even
though not soon—bring down' to the dust
a system - which.disgusts by its worldliness
and covetous views.
IRELS.XD is'again—in the town of Tip
perary—the ,scene of a' horrible nrurder,
perpetrated on Mr. Sraddel, a Receiver of
rents, as he, sat transaeting , official business,
in a room of the principal hotel. his mur-.
derer, Michael - Hayes, had been' formerly
employed by him as a "bailiff ; " and assist
ed, with stern fidelity and cruelty, in the
" eviction" of tenants in arrears within the
period of 1847 and 1850, when the small,
farmers, ruined by the famine, got into ar
rears. None of the sufferers themselves
threatened Mr. Braddel. But the latter had
given evidence;-against.Hayes' son, who
was tried recently for murder, and was
even himself threatened with eviction.
The Land Agents, to my own knowledge,
used to be—even in Ulster—a very proud,
oppressive class. One I knew i who made'
a great-- profession of religion, but whose
bailiffs scoured ,the country,' their very
looks being those Of ... unfeeling, brutal men,
and their sets corresponded. This man
was wakedlip oneday by'a-tremendons and
sudden •assault , on his dwelling , and• prem
ises—surrounded by." Tommy Downshire's
men."—a.popular uprising urged on by
that " oppression" which " drives wise men.
mad;" and Which turns the non-wise into
murderers.
The worst feature in these affairs, as I
.have repeatedly noticed,-is the shelter and
sympathy for the murderers by the popu
lace. Baron DeaSy (Judge) has been de
nouncing this, and plainlY hinting what
the priests; should , do; but does,'not :Arch
bishop Hale.set offngainst such atrocities,
imaginary, murders. of the. people, by the
really" generous British Government and
Poor Law Board, and does* not Popery so
debauch the conscience, and-make-the eye
of the *understanding se : purblind; and so
steel hearts naturally kind, as, to prove--
by-the bloody issues such as now strike ter
ror.; into the - souls of the Irishgentry in the
South—that " killing" is no murder.
Nothing Mine Vat God.
In' the Memoir of'lfri. Savage, the si'S
ter of Matthew Henry, the Conimentatet,
is this entry in her diary: - 44 Resolved, To
e,all nothing ;mine but,God." How forcibly
:does the expression, remind us of the ,Sa
viour 74 requirement—" Whosoever' he be
that forsaketh not - all that he fiath, he can
not be my disciple'; 'and,' at the Sometimes
of .the Apostle's, thiventory of . the , Chris
tiau'.s.possessions, ",,All things are yours."
Truly,if this be so, "He that loseth, his
life shall find it."
We often hear bitter complaints of the
coldness and unsociable habits of city con
gregations. A gentleman once told us that
he was a regular attendant for a year at a
certain church, and neither pastor nor wor
shippers ever spoke to him during that pe
riod, and he left in search of a more genial
home. This is an extreme case '
no doubt;
but many churches lose moral power by
their neglect of strangers. The Congrega
tionalist tells a good story, with a moral :
"Uncle Elam" is a Christian. All who
know him admit this, even those very moral
people who are themselves " no great sin
ners," but who continually inveigh against
the faults of "church members," and affirm
their willingness to believe in religion, if
all its advocates were like " Uncle Elam."
He is a " pillar " of the church with which
he is connected, both spiritually and finan
cially. I have not taken my pen to enlo
oise "Uncle Elam " however but simply
to tell one of his stories, for Uncle Elanfs
stories always have a moral.
.This good man was once a stranger in a
certain place, and was seeking a church
with which to worship, or, in his words,
" wanted to find a home." " Upon inqui
ry," says Uncle Elam, 4 ' I found there were
two churches of my way of thifiking
Within a few milea, so I harnessed up and
drove to the nearest one. I tied my horse
to the fence and went in. After waiting a
little while a sleepy-looking man came and
said, Seat, sir ?' I bowed, and followed
him into the house. The preacher was ev
idently a spiritual man, and his discourse
was edifying. The morning service closed,
and the minister foll Owed his congregation
out. There seemed to me to be mucheold
ness between pastor and people, and among
the people also. There were no pleasant
greetings, no cordial. hand-shakings i only
a few stiff bows, and they separated. No
one spoke to, me. I walked around a little,
stood in the entry a while, and then went
back to the seat the sexton had given me.
At the close of the afternoon service I went
home, feeling that there was no Christian
cordiality there, and but precious little
Christian courtesy. Still I didn't wish to
judge hastily, and the next Sabbath I went
again, and found, the same freezing cold
ness, only varied, by a sharp look from. the
sexton, that plainly said he didn't like to
give me that seat every Sabbath. No one
noticed me, no one apparently cared wheth
er I loved the Lord, or was going down to
eternal death. 8o I went home, saying to
myself, My`heart is too warm to find a
home there.
"Well, the next Sabbath I drove to the
more distant church, hitched my horse, and
was just going up the steps when a gentle
man, who had observed me from the door,
met me with a pleasant Good morning, sir,'
adding, 'it is very windy, and if you will
permit me, Twill tie your horse hi a warm
er place.' Now, a merciful Irian is merciful
to his beast, and that little thoughtfulness
for pony's comfort took right hold of me.
Two or three gentlemen in' the entry 'spOke
to me, making some pleasant remarks upon
the weather. The sexton accosted me
heartily, just
,as I was a brother sinner, and
he was glad I had come to God's house, re
marking that he would lead me to a seat.
The subject of discourse was Vicarious
Atonement, one that always melts my heart,
and my eyes too, pretty likely; for after
service a man spoke to, me, saying, no
ticed, sir, that you were affected during the
sermon ; may I inquire if you enjoy Christ's
love ?'
" Christ's love ! how my heart bounded
at'those dear words ! That was just whyt I
wanted to talk about. I was at home then.
The minister , came along, shaking hands
right and left, and spoke to me, and others
spoke, and my heart was glad; for we are
all brothers in this world of darkness, and
what little we can do to make the waY
pleasant for each other we should never
grudge doing. Strangers need especial no
tice, and every one who, loves our Lord
Jesus Christ should be always ready to no
tice the stranger within our gates, and in
quire after the welfare of his soul. If he
is the Saviour's disciple he will 'like to
speak of his love ; but if he is unrenewed,
he may be in just that frame of mind-when
a word fitly spoken may lead him to the
Father. I enjoyed the second service,and
drove along praisina. God that I had found
a home, and a . blessd home it hits been to
me, from that day to.this."
Bow Do You Bead the Bible
If you are a:Sabbath School teacher, we
take it for granted that you read the Bible.
You read a chapter before you kneel to
pray. Custom has made this a part of
worship. You examine the verses which
are to form the Sunday lesson of your
plass. You hunt up parallel texts by which
you can throw• light upon the lesson. You
search perhaps for passages which you can
use in urging some particular truth or du
ty upon your scholars. You take an intel
lectual pleasure in makinn , yourself cc
(painted with the facts'of Scripture histo.!
rb , or the - argumenta -for Chriatian. dealing
and., church order. But do you read the
Bible for food for your own soul ? Do
you read it, as children in high health eat
pleasant food, with eagerness and for very
pleasure ? Are you involuntarily drawn
toward it, as you` are• toward. an unfinished
'tale in which .your feelings have becomei
enlisted? Do you snatch a moment-mow
and then to
.read a verse or a chapter, or to
repeat some precious passage from nieutory;
and• does your soul rest 'and expatiate in
;the truth thus conveyed, not merely for the
beauty of the expressions, or for any .Italt
lowed associations connected with the words,
but 'because they are, the soul's vital breath,
its necessary food, that which it craves for
its very life, support,' and comfort?" Can
you say with' 'the Psalinist,' "How sweet'
are thy words. unto my taste; yea sweeter
than honey to my mouth"—" Mine-eyes
fail [as one does When exhausted with hun-
ger] for thy word, saying, When wilt
thou comfort me r'--"--01 opened my n2outh
and panted, for "I IbitgedzfOr'thy command'-'
ments"—" 0 howdove•l thy law !,it is my
meditation all the day.!,'
Teacher, parent, friend, minister of the
Gospel—if you MIAS feed your own soul
with the Word, you have the best prepara
tion for feeding others. If you have mov-•
.pr ;before learned thissecret, beginto , linow
it now. ,Taste for yourself this precious
feast. It is the only pleasure : that does
not cloy. DeSil'e here grows with enjoy
ment.' Indulgence here is net excess.
When youvßikle land your religion -flood
your - whole:bettiwith happinesa that ,
speaks out Unbidden, in every look of your
eye; hi every word of your mouth, in every
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movement of your person, then truly will
scholars, friends, people, learn from you as
they have never learned before, as we learn
the nature of the sunlight by standing in
its rays, not by having a description of
them. If you would truly lot your light
shine, first get the light in your own soul.
Sociability in the Church
It has often occurred to us that there is
a serious want of the social element in the
relations of the members of our American
churches toward each other. As a general
thing, in our cities,they met only at church,
where a mere formal recognition only is
possible. There is comparatively little in
timate and friendly social intercourse, es
cept in select circles.
Why is it, why should Christians, in
whom the nobler 'and purer instincts of our
natures are it:lolOped professedly to a de
gree approxiMating the acknowledged ideal
of social feeling, be less social than others.
Selfishness, exclusiveness, pride, which ob
tain amongst others, are crucified with them.
They are worshippers of that God, who " re
spects not the persons of men." These
social vices, which create and keep eter
nally separate the reputed classes of society,
cannot be regarded by Christians. This
would effectively ignore the great law of
Christian equality, " one is your master,
even Christ, and all ye are brethren." But
what of the theory when the facts are
against it -Y Where and when do Christians
illustrate these principles?
The time was when Christians—all Chris
tians—acknowledged themselves as sustain
ing the most endeared and tender relations
toward each other. When a community of
feeling and of property was every where
recognized. But there was but one such
instance. There is manifestly not much
reason to expect that the example will be
imitated it this materialistic age. A church
in a neighboring city is in this respect, prob
ably, a type of many others. Here for years
the great difficulty in the way of its pros
perity is the great apparent want of sociabil
ity. << Strangers" occasionally come to
the church, but the social atmosphere is
such that they seldom or never repeat their
visits. 1%.T0 friendly hand is extended to
point them to a seat. If they can find one
(as in such congregations for manifest rea
sons they are not difficult to obtain,)3bey
are allowed to retire with an unpleasantly
matured impression that where even there
is so much spate they are not wanted. Pos
sibly the visitor was a humble, plainly at
tired person, and instantly there comes the
unpleasant retrospection that this was the
cause of the neglect to recognize the " stran
ge.
r."
Or, if this impression be not formed,
others will be equally effectual, in the way
of this renewal of an attempt at securing
further acquaintance with the Church.
"But I am under no obligations to live
upon terms of social fam•liarity with all
Christians." Granted. And what of that?
There are duties, however, which you owe
to all such, which cannot be performed
without seeking their acquaintance, even
the poorest and humblest of them, and find
ing them frequently, as Onesiphorus did
Paul " when he sought him out diligently."
These have special claims upon their more
honored and influential brethren. There is
with such, a natural and oft-times an excu
sable hesitancy in pressing their claims to
recognition. The fear that such advances
would be thought presumptuous or annoy
ing, often deters the poor from making the
acquaintance of the rich. But the case is
far otherwise with them. Look in upon the
Sabbath congregations in many of our larg
er churches; and we have before us the in
signia of fashion thrust before us in all its
belittling and empty pretensions, chilling
out the little life-warmth of Ohristirnity
which the formalities of worship only serve
to maintain. There is certainly a great re
form needed in the soeiale of our churches,
and the sooner it is inaugurated the bet
ter.—Meth,: Protestant.
Death and The Grave
Death and the grave are dreatful reali
ties. We shudder at dissolution. We fear
the judgment of the Most High God, and
are overwhelmed when "we stand just on the
entrance of eternity ! We know the world
is little to us. We shall soon leave it.
Covered with crape, we are travelling to
ward the resting place of the dust of our
fathers ! Our sins, our deathless souls, our
• God- 7 -oh, what amazing anxieties crowd on
our aeling hearts ! But in the Gospel we
see every thing provided for us that sin, and
death, and the grave, and the judgment, and
eternity can make us need. If we are to
' die, Jesus Christ can sympathize with us ;
he has died before us ; he has died for us.
Oh, death, where is thy sting? Death may
be a terror to nature, but death is the ser
vant of the Christian. Death is yours. Ye
are not death's. He shall not hurt you.
All he can do is to tak.e up the trembling
believer, and put himinto the arms of Jesus
Christ, when he comes again to receive him
to himsey: If we are to give our bodies to
the grave, we know who owns it, who has
conquered it, and robbed it of its victory.
Ah, more; we know how he robbed it. Our
best Friend, our Almighty Saviour, has
been doWn into its,bosom. He has softened,
sweetened, sanctified that bed of sleep. Oh,
if I am an unsullied Christian, I would
rather 02 by 'that dark path to heaven, than
gotke Elijah, With his chariot and horses
of fire ! It.will be more like Christ. I
shall lie wh ere he lay. I hall prove his
love. I shall experience his power. This
dead body shall rise:; and in heaven, sinner
saved, redeemed, loved, raised from the
dead and taken into the family of God—in
heaven—l shall love to tell what Jesus
Christ haat done for me I Angels shall
hear it ! I will tell it to the old prophets !
I will hunt up my fiithers who got there
before me, and tell it to them ! I will wait
for my Children to ,die, and as they come
there I will tell, it to them ! Oh, my God!
this is enough. I Will praise thee for it for
ever. Oh, I am comforted now. I can bury
_my Mends, my minister, my father, my
daughter; I can set my foot upon the
grave; and, with a heart filled with comfort
from the 'God of heaven, I can wart the day
when that stilled heart shall beat again, and
,those,dumb lips shall speak from the opened
coffin and we shall be caught up together
in the air. For our conversation is in
heaven, whence also we look for the Sa
viour; the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall
change our vile body,: ,that it may be lash
ioned.like unto his glorious body, according
to the working whereby he is able to subdue.
all things unto himself.